Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 28, 2023: Stormy Weather

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/62871.html

Theme: Stormy Weather.

All of the songs on this show have something or other to do with stormy weather. Some of them are literally about storms and some use storms as metaphors.

Doc & Merle Watson- Stormy Weather

Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder)

Stephen Mendel- Ready for the Storm

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Sylvia Tyson- Leaves in the Storm

At the End of the Day (Stony Plain)

Ian Tamblyn- Storm on the Mountain

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

The Wailin' Jennys- Storm Comin’

Bright Morning Stars (True North)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow

A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- Holed Up in Mason City

Bright Side of Down (Red House)

Anna & Elizabeth- Don’t Want to Die in the Storm

Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)

Christine Lavin- Here Comes Hurricane Season

Happydance of the Xenophobe (Yellow Tail)

Don Armstrong- Raging Storm

Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)

Christine Albert- Under a Stormy Sky

TexaFrance-Encore! (MoonHouse)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Calm Before the Storm

Paradise Hotel (Red House)

Sean Gagnier- (Song of the) Wheelhouse Door

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Stan Rogers- White Squall

From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Guy Clark- Blowin’ Like a Bandit

Craftsman (Philo)

Michael Jerome Browne & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Louisiana 1927

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Bill Staines- Louisiana Storm

The Second Million Miles (Red House)

Tom Rush, Jamie Hartford, Odetta, Emmylou Harris, Carolyn Hester, Nanci Griffith, Frank Christian- Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm

Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)

Garnet Rogers- Hallelujah! The Great Storm is Over

Speaking Softly in the Dark (Snow Goose Songs)

Chris Rawlings- Lillooet

Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)

David Mallett- Snowbound

Open Doors & Windows (Flying Fish)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld- The Blizzard

Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

Molly Mason, Mike Regenstreif & Jay Ungar (2005)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- The Snowstorm

The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)

Next week: My top 10 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2023.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 11, 2022: Songs of Winter

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/54825.html

Theme: Songs of Winter

Mike Regenstrif & Quartette: Caitlyn Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church, Gwen Swick (1997)

Quartette- Song for a Winter’s Night
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Jesse Winchester- Snow
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Lynn Miles- Wintery Feeling
Winter (Lynn Miles)
Ronney Abramson- Long Lonely Winter
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Sean Gagnier- (Song of the) Wheelhouse Door
Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Jenny Whiteley- Log Cabin in the Sky
The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen)
RanchWriters- Winter Flood
RanchWriters (True North)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow
A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)
John Gorka- Holed Up in Mason City
Bright Side of Down (Red House)
Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist
At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)
Noel Paul Stookey- Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – single (Neworld Multimedia)
The Roches- My Winter Coat
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Short Sisters- Snow, Snow
A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)
Rod MacDonald- The Coming of the Snow
After the War (Blue Flue Music)
Ian Hanchet- Girl from the North Country
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Jodi Jean & Aylon- Winterlude
Bobfest (Jodi Jean & Aylon)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Witch Hazel
Beyond the Boundaries (Ripple)
Sue Horowitz- January
Strings, Wings and Curious Things (Sue Horowitz)
Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches
The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)
Bruce Cockburn- The Coldest Night of the Year
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Molly Mason, Mike Regenstreif & Jay Ungar (2005)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- The Snowstorm
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)

Next week: Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Middle Years.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 30, 2021: Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hannukah and other Hannukah songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/54351.html

Theme: Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hannukah and other Hannukah songs

The Klezmatics- Happy Joyous Hanukkah
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

The Klezmatics- Hanukkah’s Flame
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
Shelley Posen- Light One Candle
Manna (Well Done Music)
Vocolot- Ocho Kandelikas
Heart Beat (Oyster Albums)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Maoz Tzur
Shimmering Lights (Arc)

Shelley Posen- Put the Latkes on to Fry
Manna (Well Done Music)

Woody Guthrie- The Many and the Few
Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Akht Kleyne Brider
Shimmering Lights (Arc)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Light One Candle
Around the Campfire (Warner Bros.)

The Klezmatics- Honeyky Hanukkah
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Khanike, Oi, Khanike
Shimmering Lights (Arc)
SONiA disappear fear- Light in You
By My Silence (Disappear Records)
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- Hanerot Halalu
Voices of Winter (Gadfly)
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with Ruth Ungar Merenda and Laurel Massé- Lights of Chanukah
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Bell
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

Shelley Posen- The La-La-Latke Song
Manna (Well Done Music)
Shelley Posen- My Mother’s Latkes
Manna (Well Done Music)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Gelt
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
The Klezmer Conservatory Band- The Dreydl Song
Oy Chanukah! (Rounder)
Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Drei Dreidl
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)

Woody Guthrie- Hanukkah Dance
Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Dance
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

Next week: Joni Mitchell at Le Hibou, Ottawa, March 19, 1968

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--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (August 24-31)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007 (and around the world via the web for most of those years). Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued for some time as occasional features on CKUT, and is now a blog. Here’s the 52nd and final instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly, year-long look back at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

August 25, 1994: Extended feature- Judy Small.
August 24, 1995: Extended feature- Guy Clark.
August 28, 1997: Show theme- A tribute to Pete Seeger.
August 27, 1998: Guests- Tom Lewis; Angela Page.

August 26, 1999: Guests- John Roberts & Tony Barrand.

August 24, 2000: Guests- Kim & Reggie Harris.

August 31, 2000: Guest- Rosalie Sorrels.

August 28, 2003: Extended feature- The 40th anniversary of the March on Washington.
August 26, 2004: Guest- Michael Pickett.

August 25, 2005: Guests- Jay Ungar & Molly Mason.
August 24, 2006: Guest- Tommy Emmanuel; Extended feature- Tribute to the late Kirk MacGeachy.
August 31, 2006- Guest- Riley Baugus.
August 30, 2007: The final regular edition of Folk Roots/Folk Branches after almost 14 years.
August 28, 2008 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): New recordings and new reissues by James Talley.

Pictured: (Top) Rosalie Sorrels and Mike Regenstreif at the 1993 Champlain Valley Folk Festival; (bottom) Molly Mason, Mike Regenstreif and Jay Ungar at the 2005 Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

--Mike Regenstreif